Souvik Dhara

Tennenbaum Early Career Professor and
Assistant Professor

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Education

  • Ph.D Mathematics and Computer Science (2018), Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
  • M. Stat. Statistics (2014), Indian Statistical Institute, India
  • B. Sc Statistics (2012), Ramakrishna Mission Residential College Narendrapur, University of Calcutta, India

About

Past appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University. 2023-2025
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University. 2023-2023
  • Simons-Berkeley and PayPal Research Fellow, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, University of California, Berkeley. 2022
  • Schramm Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2019–2022
  • Schramm Postdoctoral Fellow, Microsoft Research Lab New England. 2018-2019

Research

Broad interests: Large-scale Networks, Inference and Algorithms on Networks, Stochastic Processes, High-dimensional Probability and Statistics

Specific interests: Clustering in Networks (Spectral Algorithms, Representation Learning), Spread of Epidemics/Information, Random Graphs/Matrices, Phase Transition, Graph Limits

Teaching

  • Spring 2026: ISYE-4803-Network Science

  • Fall 2025: Special Topics - ISYE-8803 - Modern Methods in Network Science

Awards and Honors

  • IMS New Researcher Travel Award 2020
  • Stieltjes Prize 2019
  • AMS-Simons Travel Award 2018

Representative Publications

  1. S. Bhamidi, S. Dhara, R. van der Hofstad (2025). Multiscale genesis of a tiny giant for percolation on scale-free random graphs. Annals of Probability 53(4): 1331–1381.
  2. S. Dhara, D. Mukherjee, K. Ramanan (2024). On r-to-p norms of random matrices with non-negative entries: Asymptotic normality and \ell_\infty bounds for the maximizer. Annals of Applied Probability 34(6): 5076–5115.
  3. S. Dhara, R. van der Hofstad (2024). Barely supercritical percolation on Poissonian scale-free networks. Markov Processes and Related Fields 30(1): 27–55.
  4. S. Dhara, J. Gaudio, E. Mossel, C. Sandon (2023). The power of two matrices in spectral algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 70(5): 3599–3621.
  5. S. Dhara, S. Sen (2022). Large deviation for uniform graphs with given degrees. Annals of Applied Probability32(3): 2327–2353.
  6. S. Bhamidi, S. Dhara, R. van der Hofstad, S. Sen (2022). Global lower mass-bound for critical configuration models in the heavy-tailed regime. Electronic Journal of Probability 27, no. 103, 1–29.
  7. C. Borgs, J. T. Chayes, S. Dhara, S. Sen (2021). Limits of sparse configuration models and beyond: graphexes and multi-graphexes. Annals of Probability 49(6): 2830–2873.
  8. C. Borgs, J. T. Chayes, S. Dhara, S. Sen (2021). A correction to Kallenberg’s theorem for jointly exchangeable random measures. Supplementary to the above article in Annals of Probability.
  9. S. Dhara, R. van der Hofstad, J. S. H. van Leeuwaarden (2021). Critical percolation on scale-free random graphs: New universality class for the configuration model. Communications in Mathematical Physics 382(1): 123–171.
  10. S. Bhamidi, S. Dhara, R. van der Hofstad, S. Sen (2020). Universality for critical heavy-tailed network models: Metric structure of maximal components. Electronic Journal of Probability 25, no. 47, 1–57.
  11. S. Dhara, R. van der Hofstad, J. S. H. van Leeuwaarden, S. Sen (2020). Heavy-tailed configuration models at criticality. Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré (B) Probability and Statistics 56(3): 1515–1558.
  12. S. Dhara, J. S. H. van Leeuwaarden, D. Mukherjee (2018). Corrected mean-field model for random sequential adsorption on random geometric graphs. Journal of Statistical Physics 173(3–4): 872–894.
  13. D. Mukherjee, S. Dhara, S. Borst, J. S. H. van Leeuwaarden (2017). Optimal service elasticity in large-scale distributed systems. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems 25: 1–28. Conference version: ACM SIGMETRICS ’17.
  14. S. Dhara, D. Mukherjee, S. Sen (2017). Phase transitions of extremal cuts for the configuration model. Electronic Journal of Probability 22, no. 86, 1–29.
  15. S. Dhara, J. S. H. van Leeuwaarden, D. Mukherjee (2016). Generalized random sequential adsorption Erdős–Rényi random graphs. Journal of Statistical Physics 164: 1217–1232.
  16. S. Dhara, R. van der Hofstad, J. S. H. van Leeuwaarden, S. Sen (2016). Critical window for the configuration model: finite third moment degrees. Electronic Journal of Probability 22, no. 16, 1–33.